Sten Gun Mk II

grabcad

My own take on the iconic and much derided Sten Gun(IGES Files re-uploaded 28/05/2019 to correct an error)Born out of necessity. The British government was paying £45 each for a Thompson sub machine gun after the British were routed in Northern France in 1940. This money had to paid in hard currency, gold basically, and Britain was already bankrupt after the first world war and the great depression. The answer was the Sten gun. A cheap to manufacture sub machine gun made with cheap materials and manufacturing processes not requiring skilled labour. It cost about £4 to manufacture a single gun, about £100 in today's money, 1/10 the cost of a Thompson sub machine gun.The model was created from Davis S Findlay's book, The Sten Submachine Gun, which includes a full set of engineering drawings. The drawings seem pretty accurate and the model fits together very nicely from his drawings. The problem area is the magazine which mirrors the design flaws of the real firearm. The Sten gun was a much better weapon than many people give it credit for. Its main weakness was the magazine design, a single feed into the breech from a 30 round magazine. The later postwar L2A3 Sterling machine gun addressed these issues and is recognised as one of the best sub machine gun designs ever.2 versions of the firearm are uploaded. The first is the weapon safe and unloaded. The second is with the weapon cocked and loadedAll open bolt submachine guns are dangerous in the wrong hands!Please note, The model is for educational purposes only.